What is the misinterpretation of God’s jealousy? It is believing that God is so insecure that he would be jealous of anything  about man or even the devil. If we are claiming that God is omnipresent, omnipotence, and omniscience, then it is not God who has the problem, we are the ones with the problem of misinterpretation of what being jealous means when it comes to God. Maybe the word to be use should not be jealous, but protective for our own good from anything that could cause us to turn away from him, like sin. God requires our commitment to him. After what happened to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden nothing else in the world can be compared to him that would be good or as concerned for our wellbeing as he is. Because really, he is the only God there’s no other, but the rebellious angel the devil, who tries to be a God and misleading some of us free-willed humans against God.

People you have to consider this: God created everything even the devil. Even some things that God has created which is bad, according to our understand, is suitable for his own purpose. Take for example, Jesus wasn’t jealous of John the Baptist or his followers, because Jesus knew John was there to serve a purpose. Neither would he be jealous of all the attention that Paul the murderer got over his disciples he taught and walked with. Paul wrote so much in the New testament, that he surpassed  all the disciples writings and today is being quoted even more so than them. But remember it was Jesus who threw Paul off his horse and asked why was he persecuting him and then gave him all wisdom, knowledge and understanding in Acts 9:1-22. Remember in Mark 9:38-40 John told Jesus there was a man driving out demons in his name, and they told him to stop, because he doesn’t belong to their group. Jesus told them, don’t try to stop him, because no one who performs miracle in my name will be able soon afterward to say evil things about me. For whoever is not against us is for us. Jesus never once said anything about jealousy. After all God should be jealous of Jesus the man, who has so much more influence on humanity than him, because he walked and talk with them, fed, taught and did miracles for them, that even his name they call upon first in times of trouble.

What our problem is, is that we are trying hard to personify God as a human being with human emotions and thoughts (Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord). If God created everything, why would he be jealous of it? Jealousy is what the devil is all about, not God. The word jealous should never be use to describe God in my understanding of how God is towards us. Just to think of it, if he was anything like what we’ve interpret jealousy to be, we would be dead already, because we have a lot of things we give priority to before him.